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So Busy Quotes

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
- Mitch Albom

I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.
- Jodi Picoult

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.
- Toba Beta

Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.
For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple,
we are higher than human race in the food chain.
- Toba Beta

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
- John Dryden

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.
- William J H Boetcker

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
- Ray Bradbury

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
- Ray Bradbury

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.
- Lorraine Bracco

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H Jackson Brown Jr

It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about hating me.
- Jennifer Brown

every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jetand you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head.
- Neal Shusterman

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.
- Kim Cattrall

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
- Geoffrey Chaucer

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
- Robert A Heinlein

People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.
- Andrea Corr

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.
- Stephen Covey

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
- Marcelene Cox

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
- Hansie Cronje

Stop thinking "Outside the box" and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else's success without understanding all of the nuances and factors that went into that success. Further, people are so busy recreating the wheel that they have forgotten what the wheel looks like.
- Julie Ann Dawson

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
- Deborah Day

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
- John Green

Lonely, vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children," i said.
he laughed. "that's why."
"what?"
"that's why i like you. do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates an adjectival version of the word pedophile? you are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
- John Green

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
- John Green

You're so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
- John Green

The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that he has forgotten the use he intended to put it to.
- Henry Miller

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
- Garrison Keillor

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.
- Gayle Forman

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
- Philip Larkin

I must learn more about these people-try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.
- Sylvia Plath

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- Eric Hoffer

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
- Alice Hoffman

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
- Winifred Holtby

The fuck?" he said.
"The fuck?" said Jess. "The fuck what?"
"It's an American abbreviation," said Martin. " "The fuck?" means "What the fuck?" In America, they're so busy that they don't have time to say the "what".
- Nick Hornby

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
- Kin Hubbard

My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.
- Aldous Huxley

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.
- Curtis Joseph

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
- Jerry Seinfeld

But she'd forgotten. She'd forgotten because she'd been so busy thinking of her own fucking feelings. As if she fucking mattered.
- Stacia Kane

Never be so busy as not to think of others.
- Mother Teresa

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old.
- Mark Kelly

No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.
- Spencer W Kimball

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
- Florence King

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them,
[Rabbi Harold Kushner]
- Harold Kushner

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
- Vernon Law

There are some kind of men - men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
- Harper Lee

There are just some kind of men whowho're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
- Harper Lee

There are just some kind of men...who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.
- Harper Lee

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.(Miss Maudie)
- Harper Lee

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
- Doris Lilly

The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they're just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can't even see what's right in front of them.
- Morgan Matson

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.
- Neal A Maxwell

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
- Frank Mccourt

You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.
- Scotty Mccreery

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.
- Sarah Mclachlan

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.
- Christopher Meloni

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.
- Slobodan Milosevic

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
- Isaac Mizrahi

The question that must guide all organizing activity in a parish is not how to keep people busy, but how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
- Henri Nouwen

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
- Major R Owens

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
- Dolly Parton

...watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of Growing Up was a sham, the bus out of town you're so busy waiting for, you don't notice it never actually comes.
- Marisha Pessl

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
- Bill Watterson

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
- Rachel Roy

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.
- Elizabeth Scott

How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?
- Janne Teller

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.
- Mel Tillis

It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love
- Nancy E Turner

Hazel should have done somethingleft a note, pretended she was going to go visit Jack's aunt Bernice. Something. She was so busy thinking about the one she needed to rescue she didn't think at all about the one she was leaving behind. She was supposed to take care of her mother, too. She was not supposed to be sipping honey tea with people who are just like the parents you think you are supposed to have. Her mother was what she had.
- Anne Ursu

A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I answered, you'll be ahead so long as you're the only president who has one. But don't get it. Everyone will expect more out of you.
- Alan Watts

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.
- Carnie Wilson

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
- Kathleen Winsor

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.
- Lee Ann Womack

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
- Adam Young

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